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Equal Rites

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Indira Varma, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy
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The audiobook of Equal Rites is narrated by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones; Luther; This Way Up). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually; Pirates of the Caribbean; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace; Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan.

'They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.'

Everybody knows there's no such thing as a female wizard. So when the wizard Drum Billet accidentally passes on his staff of power to an eighth daughter of an eighth son, a girl called Eskarina (Esk, for short), the misogynistic world of wizardry wants nothing to do with her.

Thankfully Granny Weatherwax, the Discworld's most famous witch, has plenty of experience ignoring the status quo. With Granny's help, Esk sneaks her way into the magical Unseen University and befriends apprentice wizard Simon.

But power is unpredictable, and these bright young students soon find themselves in a whole new dimension of trouble. Let the battle of the sexes begin....

Equal Rites is the first book in the Witches series, but you can listen to the Discworld novels in any order.

The first book in the Discworld series – The Colour of Magic – was published in 1983. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this.

©1987 Terry Pratchett (P)2022 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?" (Guardian)
 

"Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own." (The Times)

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Finally a narrator to match Pratchett's prose!

No disrespect to Baldrick or Neil off of the Young Ones but Indira Varma knocks their renditions into a cocked hat, really brings out the writing. If you're a Pterry fan wondering whether to give yet another audio rendition a go, fear not. This is wonderful.

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Gods, the new narration is good!

I've listened to the old Pratchett audiobooks, all of them, but none have done such a good job of capturing the intent and tone of the speech as well as these have!

I might buy all of the new ones as well at this rate. Certainly the Witches series, Indira is amazing!

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Wonderful.

It's so nice to have this book done justice at last. Great narration.
Whoever had the idea of having Bill Nighy read the footnotes is a genius. Give them a rise.

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Love, love, loved!

My first time listening to a Terry Pratchett although read a lot of them when I was younger, absolutely loved this and loved the reader. Forgot how entertaining they are and have already downloaded The Wyrd Sisters and will definitely download or preorder the rest read by Indria Varma. Would recommend to anyone who loves a bit of magic.

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Finally!

Discworld seems awfully difficult to get right on either audio or visual. This does.

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The modern retelling are superior.

Like Wyrd Sisters, this is equally 'spell binding' with its brilliant plots, excellent presentation and just addictive.

Yet to hear a Disc World book that isn't just immense and these new readings are vastly superior to the already entertaining originals.

Very, very, very highly recommended.

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Exceptionally well read

This is one of my favourite Terry Pratchet stories and I was glad that it was so well read by the reader. Amazing work and I will be getting more books where she is the reader.

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loved it, but too short.

Getting lost in the Discworld and their characters . Onto the next book and more magical happenings.

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Excellent

Narrator was amazing. She carried it off which is seems hard to do with Pratchett. She read it aloud how I say it in my head, despite my internal narrator being male, how apt.

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Wonderful

At last someone to do justice to the superlative Terry Pratchett Indira and crew are truly outstanding at bringing this magical book to life. I loved every second and couldn't recommend highly enough

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